Rena waited as promised and Shana obliged her request to take the offense instead of defense. As it was clear Rena held the advantage otherwise. She then proceeded to rush towards Rena before stopping and making it seem like she was about to attack. Rena performed a palm thrust strike, but her senses and her eyes told her to move her head to the left as Shana appeared over there instead. She didn't stop her palm strike however and instead of quick jabbing Shana's fireballs as intended the image in front of her exploded with a raikohou and caught Rena unaware. So both attacks had landed on her.

This caused her to slide backwards a good deal and cough from the force of the attack but was otherwise fine for the moment. Shana appeared next to her and tried to elbow her, but Rena was already back in the game. So she caught that elbow twisted Shana's arm and launched the girl in the direction she had been facing, which put her flying through the air on Rena's left rather than attacking her on Rena's right side. Or tried at least. If nothing else she definitely blocked the elbow with a palm.

If she didn't toss the girl, somehow, she'd once again try a palm thrust with the intent of bouncing Shana off the ground again.

on Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:29 am

It appeared that Shana's plan worked well mostly, even if it wasn't any where near as Shana had been hoping, especially since she showed off one of her signature techniques in it but beggars can't be choosers. Her trapped after image did exactly as she had intended releasing the raikoho at Rena when her palm struck it, the act catching her off guard and the resulting explosion caught her off guard leaving her open to the subsequent fireballs. However that was as far as Shana's plan had carried her as the elbow that she had hoped would land home, and possibly open a cut over the captain-commanders eye was caught, and she was flipped sent flying through the air like an oversized Raggedy Anne doll.

Though from the second her arm was caught she was already working through multiple plans out of the situation depending on what Rena did with her. Unfortunately for the red-head though she hadn't gotten to the being flipped through the air option by the time she had been launched through the air. Once she was soaring though, her natural instincts kicked in and her wings snapped open slowing her momentum to a halt and letting her right her self so that her feet was now facing the ground. Based on the fact that Rena, did not follow her Shana figured that meant it was still her turn to be on the offense. Using shunpo Shana closed the gap between the two of them, launching a wave of fire ahead of her. The blast itself was designed to be more of a distraction as it was aimed to strike the ground about eight inches in front of Rena kicking up a bunch of sand and smoke in the process, landing on the other side of the smoke Shana formed more fireballs, one in each hand, two large spheres of fire about four feet across that she then launched forward at close range firing them at near bala level speeds.

Techniques Used:

Technique Name: HienTechnique Description: 2 post cooldown - Shana swings her zanpakuto creating a wave of flame, that expands outward in a circle like pattern, however it does not form a full circle, and leaving the area behind the Shana's back untouched. The wave itself has the same cutting power as her own zanpakuto, though the flames will prevent the wound from bleeding, by instantly cauterizing it dealing up to second degree burns in the process and doing damage equal to about a rank 20 hado. If this attack is empowered the cut depth will double.

Technique Name: HanteiTechnique Description: Cooldown Varies - By far one of the most basic abilities that Alastor possesses being just a simple fireball fired from the blade of the zanpakuto that explodes on contact. The only variation of this technique is that Shana can fire off fireballs of variable sizes. The sizes in feet are as follows:

Fireball Chart:4x4x4: Deals the same amount of damage as a Bala causing first degree burns on impact. Shana can fire up to 5 of these in one post. Firing 2 or fewer only has a 1 post cool down, though firing 3 or more will cause the cooldown to rise to 2

Rena kept her eyes on Shana as she waited patiently. She could fly with wings of flame? That was rather cool. Rena had never thought to use her elemental abilities in such a manner when she had her Zanpaktou at her disposal. It was interesting. She took one step back as Shana launched a flame wave at her, but quickly realized it was useless because apparently she hadn't intended to hit Rena with that attack. She could feel energy build up coming from Shana's direction however.

And decided to test out something which the thought of doing so causing Rena to grin.

She took in a breath, a noticeable one if Shana was paying attention, and released a yell so loud and powerful it not only put out the wave of fire, but the fireballs that Shana had released. If Shana did not immediately cover her ears they would be damaged slightly, impairing motor skills and slightly disorientating her by roughly 1/4th of her capacity to use them.

Seeing the effectiveness of her Kiai made her whistle a bit. She hadn't done that before in a combat situation so it was quite a fun little toy, "Neato.. Hey if you can still hear me don't feel the need to press the attack right away. You may regroup and plan strategies. I can wait."

on Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:20 am

Shana was hit full force with the concussive blast of noise that Rena had released, unfortunately for the red-head the smokescreen that she had kicked up had blocked Rena from her view as well as blocked her from Rena's view. And unfortunately the warning she had gotten by the smoke and fire being smothered was not enough for her to cover her ears, even if she knew that she had to do so. The force of the shout was also enough to push the red-head backwards with enough force that she ended up stumbling and toppling over.

Laying in the sand ears ringing so loudly she could barely make out Rena's statement about not needing to press the attack right away, it came through as a kind of mumble. Raising her arm in a thumbs up to signal that she understood Shana caught her breath before sitting up, a wave of dizziness hit her that she tried to shake away before standing. Once she felt steady enough on her feet Shana drew her zanpakuto for the first time that day, though she did not turn it on her opponent instead she turned it upon her wardrobe slicing away the bottom of her shirt, causing the normally modest outfit to reveal her bellybutton she then proceeded to slice her strip in half, slicing the zipper off of her strips she rolled them into improvised earplugs, cutting away the excess materials before stuffing them into her ears.

While they may not be soundproof enough to prevent the Kiai from forcing her back, or damaging her hearing it should at least be enough to lessen its effectiveness. Of course combined with the ringing that was still in her ears she was effectively deaf for now. Sheathing Alastor again Shana took up her stance again, though even that small amount of movement was enough to bring forth another wave of dizziness, as well as the knowledge that her limbs weren't quite responding as normal. In this situation Shana couldn't help but admire Rena's technique out loud, her voice probably coming out far louder than intended "That is quite an interesting technique you have there, at close range it would easily set up for a finishing blow if you had intended it to do so, well atleast against anyone who can hear normally."

"Eh It's more of a by-product technique of something else. But I suppose you are right," Rena replied a bit louder than normal since Shana was clearly lacking in the hearing department at the moment. The girl had a good idea stripping some of her shirt and using it as ear plug, a shame about the shirt though... Rena took her fighting stance again and waited, as shana still had the go for being on the offensive, but kept her guard solid despite starting to think Shana had no means to actually inflict true amounts of harm on Rena.

on Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:51 am

Shana could barely hear what Rena said, between the ringing that was starting to subside and the bits of her shirt in her ears, the little red-head was mostly deaf. Though Shana did notice that Rena took up a defensive stance, and it started to look to Shana atleast that if she was going to be useful to the captain commander at all she was going to have to pull out all of the stops and do something she hadn't done since her encounter with the human who Shana had thought permanently maimed, and possibly even disabled the woman before her, and call on her sisters power and don her mask. Though before she did that Shana knew that she had at least one more trick up her sleeve to test the captain commanders defense before doing so.

Shana's balance relatively restored, while not quite at one hundred percent she felt comfortable enough to move now, and the delay between her issuing the commands to her limbs and their actions was now almost negligible. Controlling her breathing Shana steadied herself ready to begin again. Using shunpo Shana moved towards Rena's left where she used Shunpo again, this time leaving behind a regular after image before appearing on Rena's right, Thrusting her right hand forward Shana loosed the largest fireball that she could muster, a 12' diameter sphere of death and flames, and while she was expecting the attack to fail, it was more of a distraction, to cause Rena to move in hopes of forcing her into a less defensible position, at least long enough to create an opening for her next move.

If Rena moved Shana would move with her, using shunpo to appear behind her while she was in motion, flapping her wings releasing a dozen razor sharp, red-hot, dagger-like feathers that upon impacting Rena would explode to deal decent damage in a small area around them.

Techniques Used:

Technique Name: HanteiTechnique Description: Cooldown Varies - By far one of the most basic abilities that Alastor possesses being just a simple fireball fired from the blade of the zanpakuto that explodes on contact. The only variation of this technique is that Shana can fire off fireballs of variable sizes. The sizes in feet are as follows: 12x12x12: These are the most powerful of the fireballs that this technique can generate, dealing damage equal to 150% that of a normal Cero, causing second degree burns on impact, and first degree to anything in the blast radius. Shana can only fire one of these per post an the ability goes on a 3 post cooldown afterwards.

Technique Name: Shakunetsu no haneTechnique Description: Shana flaps her wings and a dozen feathers dislodge and launch themselves at her target. The feathers pierce their targets becoming lodged in whatever they strike. The feathers burn as if they were red hot daggers dealing damage similar to that of Byakurai, and inflicting second degree burns to the flesh it gets caught in, and Shana can cause them to explode dealing damage equal to that of a #50 Hado in a one foot radius around the feather, also inflicting first degree burns to anything caught in the blast radius, if not the feathers vanish after two posts.

"KYA!" Rena shouted as Shana bombarded her with fiery death. Punching the thing with a super charged "Fist of Destruction" and literally ending the fireballs existence with sheer power and reiatsu alone. However Shana flapped those pretty flame wings and launched a barrage of feathers at her soon afterwards. Rena, not knowing any better, activated her Sendo Genkotsu technique, derived from the normal Shinigami Raioken, and punched every single feather out of the air.

But they all exploded when she did that. Like. Really. Truly. Exploded. That HURT.

Rena was covered in varying burns from head to toe despite not a single feather actually making it past her fists. This forced her to activate her Water Affinity Shunko in order to heal herself of the damage that was dealt to her. This also enhanced her already insane abilities further and she proceeded to attempt to bounce Shana across the desert again because somehow she was infront of the girl again using a palm thrust at her chest with all her speed and might.

Fortunately Rena, who had not intended to lose her calm after being so damaged all of a sudden, quickly regained her composure and stopped after the one attempt at sending Shana flying across the battlefield, whether it hit or not.

"Well.. that was... a blast.. ........Not sure I wanna take that again. How's your hearing?"

on Mon Apr 10, 2017 6:19 am

Well that had gone about how Shana expected it too, well sort of, the fireball got punched out of existence, not even getting a chance to do any form of damage, or even cause Rena to move into a position that left her with openings. Deciding that even Rena would have to dodge a dozen feathers at once planning to take advantage of any opening found in her motion Shana flapped her crimson wings sending her dagger-like feathers flying at the captain commander, who punched them out of the sky, like literally. Who the heck does that? Though as her fists impacted them covering her in varying degrees of burns despite not a single one of them. Apparently the feathers weren't the only thing that was going to explode as Rena's reiatsu flared so much that it manifested around her with enough force to blow out the shoulders and back of her outfit.

The blue-ish aura that engulfed Rena was impressive causing Shana to shake a little, especially as she watched the burns on Rena's body start to fade. Great another person who burning is ineffective against, I really can't catch a break at all. Before Shana could even voice her complaints Rena was in front of her, raising her arms to block the incoming palm-thrust and kicking backwards Shana managed to mitigate the worst of the strike, though it still succeeded in sending her flying backwards a good distance away. Striking the soft sandy ground with enough force to bounce, forcefully knocking the air out of her lungs. Managing to gasp in a lungful of air as Rena spoke Shana answered. "Oww, better than the rest of me."

"Just a warning, I have full control over my inner hollow so please do not freak out over what I am about to do." Shana said as she shakily got to her feet, cracking her neck she got her breathing back under control, reaching up to her hair-line with her right hand she slowly dragged it down over her face her vicious looking hollow mask formed under her palm. Mask donned Shana felt the refreshing surge of Yukari's power flowing through her, it was intoxicating, and for a moment Shana's focus wavered as she wondered why she didn't tap into it more often. Shaking the thoughts from her mind, she focused on the task at hand. Using shunpo Shana moved to be about five feet away from Rena where she would take up a defensive stance, her muscles taught. Flapping her wings Shana released more feathers that flew at Rena, knowing that she would be more wary of their power Shana readied herself to shunpo off to one side of Rena while she was dealing with the feathers in one way or another. Once in position Shana will thrust her right hand out, loosing the crimson beam of energy known as a Cero at near point blank range at Rena.

Rena grinned as Shana tried to "warn" her about her using her vizard powers, which was almost disappointing since She had told Shana not to hold back and she was waiting until now to use that power, but she just put a hand on on her chest for a moment, releasing energy but not saying anything before putting both her hands down and standing there completely unguarded and waiting for Shana.

The girl moved quick and stopped near Rena ready to defend herself if needed, then released a wave of feathers at her. This activated the first kidou Rena had activated secretly on her chest. Millon Escudo. Which threw up a barrier and protected her from all of the feathers and their explosive properties. She then shunpo'd to Rena's side and released a cero which was met with Rena raising the arm on that side and activating her second. weaker, shield bakudo of choice. El Escudo. Which stopped the Cero in it's tracks.

Rena smiled lightly, not wanting to upset Shana at this point, "Thank you Shana. I haven't had to use those in so long it's refreshing that I needed to. I learned quite a bit from sparring with you."

on Mon Apr 24, 2017 6:12 am

Shana was kind of surprised that Rena dropped her guard before her attack, figuring some trick was involved especially with the gesture of touching her chest, Shana readied herself for a possible counter as she went through her previously planned motions. Sure enough there was some plan, though it didn't result in a counter at least in this instance. The feathers that she had released towards Rena was intercepted by a barrier that she had apparently cast without incantation or name. The barrier had managed to protect the Captain Commander from both the piercing effect and subsequent explosions of the feathers, though the weakness of the barrier is that it only seemed to protect her from one side, leaving her side open to Shana's following point-blank Cero.

As Shana fired the crimson beam at Rena, the brown haired young woman raised her arm on that side casting another shield that intercepted the blast stopping it in the tracks. Lowering her arm and speaking Rena had apparently tested what she had desired to, and was ready for the fight to end. Standing up straight the red-haired young woman pulled the mask off letting it vanish in a flash of fire in her hand. Returning her smile Shana said, "Any time Rena-san, that was the most fun I had being someone's punching bag in a while. Though I will probably have to bug my room mate to make sure I am put back together properly, if you ever need anything else, well within reason just send word and I will see what I can do."